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on the well-known hybrids between Linaria repens and L. vulgaris. 

 Notes on British plants are so infrequent in the Annals that it 

 seems well to call attention to these, which might otherwise be 

 overlooked. 



David Robertson, LL.D., F.L.S., " The Naturalist of Cumbrae," 

 died at Millport, Cumbrae, on the 20th November. He needed but 

 a week to attain his ninetieth birthday, having been born in 

 Glasgow on the 28fch November, 1806. The Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing 

 has told the story of his life in The Naturalist of Cumbrae: how he 

 struggled with adversity, commenced a medical education, forsook 

 it, went into business, and by the time he was fifty-four years old had 

 made enough money to enable him to retire and devote himself to 

 his beloved marine zoology. However, it is as a botanist that he 

 is commemorated here. His knowledge of British Seaweeds was 

 intimate, and in many cases critical, and he was the valued corre- 

 spondent of students of this subject. He was a man of fascinating 

 character, and of wonderful influence over the young people who 

 during recent years went to work in the " Ark " at Millport. The 

 progress of the new Zoological Station and Museum at Millport, 

 which will be a permanent memorial of him, engaged his interests 

 to the end. 



The death is announced of Frederick Isaac Warner, F.L.S., of 

 Winchester, on the 8th November last, at the age of fifty-five. 

 Though for many years past incapacitated by ill-health for much 

 out-of-doors botany, he retained the keen interest in the study 

 which made him an ardent botanist in the years gone by. He was 

 a contributor to this Journal, and, as his notes testify, a careful 

 observer and student both of flowering plants and mosses, and the 

 minuter fungi. Perhaps his most active work was done in connec- 

 tion with the Winchester and Hampshire Scientific and Literary 

 Society, of the Botanical Section of which he was in 1871 secretary, 

 and in 1872 became the general secretary, an ofiice which he held 

 till the end of 1876. In the Journal of the Proceedings of this 

 Society he published, in 1871, a list of plants found within seven 

 miles of Winchester, wath the localities. He formed a very good 

 and complete herbarium of Hampshire plants, and he furnishes 

 lists of localities for Mr. Townsend's Flora of Hampshire, in which 

 work his name is constantly given as the authority for localities. 

 He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1872. — F. S. 



Alfred Chandler, who is included in the Bior/raphical Index 

 of Botanists, was born at Vauxhall on Jan. 31st, 1804, and died 

 on Nov. 10th last. Although he cannot strictly claim rank as a 

 botanist, his name is associated with the beautiful Illustrations 

 of Camellia published in 1831, for which he prepared the 

 drawings. We learn from the Gardeners' Chronicle for Nov. 21st, 

 where a fuller notice of Chandler will be found, that he leaves 

 behind him an extensive collection of drawings, which form an 

 interesting record of horticultural progress. He died at East 

 Pulwich. 



